Modelling of linguistic variables in multicriteria energy policy support

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 227, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 227-238

  Doukas, Haris ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS NTUA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decision support; Energy policy; Linguistic variables; Multicriteria analysis; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; DECISION SUPPORTS; ENERGY POLICY MAKERS; LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATIONS; LINGUISTIC VARIABLE; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION AIDS;

ENERGY POLICY;

EID: 84873732991     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2012.11.026     Document Type: Article

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